8407
PAPER INDUSTRY
NOTE TO K. M. SHVEDCHIKOV***
Comrade Shvedchikov,
6 August 1921

I cannot arrange the meeting you are requesting. I ask you to write me a few lines: first, concerning what fund for foreign purchases you have ultimately received for 1921, and second, what practical proposals you now have.

Lenin.

1 K. M. Shvedchikov — Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Council of People's Commissars for Paper Industry and Polygraphy Production.
2 Apparently the question concerns purchases abroad of equipment for the paper industry.

25467
NOTE TO A. O. ALSKY.
5/XI [1921]

Comrade Alsky!1 I am forwarding you this request from Shvedchikov. 
The paper industry will be ruined for a whole year if we do not pull it through n o w. We must mobilize all forces.

Write me what you are doing. Should I not appoint an urgent commission?

Lenin.

1 A. O. Alsky — Deputy Commissar of Finance.

9S73
ANNOTATIONS ON K. M. SHVEDCHIKOV'S LETTER.
[12 November 1921]

Dear Vladimir Ilyich,

I enclose herewith for your information the following figures and considerations.

Output (millions of poods).

1917
1918
1919
1920
1921

1) Paper
8 m.p.
4.5
2.5
2.1
1.6

2) Cardboard
0.4
0.24
0.15
0.1
0.09

3) Cellulose
1.5
1.4
1.0
0.8
0.6

4) Wood pulp
1.25
0.9
0.9
0.8
0.5

* Printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.
** The note was written by Lenin at the bottom of K. M. Shvedchikov's proposals concerning measures for the development of the paper industry. Ed.
*** The figures are approximate.

Lenin Miscellany XXIII